What a refreshing departure this book is from the
not-so-great critically acclaimed books I’ve read this year. Ok, maybe refreshing is not the best word for
a book about the grisly torture and murder of several Black children, but it
definitely held my attention. Titus
Crown is the Black sheriff of a Virginia county with its share of Southern
white nationalist racists, including some of Titus’s deputies. The novel opens with a Black school shooter
who kills only one person—a beloved white teacher. Titus’s deputies bring down the shooter, and
the county is divided along race lines in its support of the shooter or the
victim, who turns out to be a violent pedophile. The teacher had a partner in his crimes
against children, and that sicko is still at large, leaving a trail of
mutilated bodies in his wake. Titus has
his hands full not only with this case but also with his hot-headed brother, a
deputy on the take, an old girlfriend who materializes, and his current
girlfriend, who is not quite the firecracker that the old girlfriend is. Plus, Titus is still wracked with guilt over
a case that spelled his departure from the FBI and desperately wants a better
outcome for this one. He is a good man
and a good sheriff, but he is also serving as a detective here, and we are
rooting for him to find the clue that will be the linchpin to identifying the
monster who is still out there before the body count goes any higher.
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